x, 385 p. : 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

The blockbuster: everything connects, but not everything goes / Thomas Elsaesser -- Those who disagree can kiss Jack Valenti's ass / Jon Lewis -- The Hollywood history business / Jan-Christopher Horak -- The man who wanted to go back / Murray Pomerance -- "American" cinema in the 1990s and beyond: whose country's filmmaking is it anyway? / Charlie Keil -- Marketing marginalized cultures: The wedding banquet, cultural identities, and independent cinema of the 1990s / Justin Wyatt -- Hollywood redux: All about my mother and Gladiator / Hilary Radner -- The zen of masculinity: rituals of heroism in The matrix / Pat Mellencamp -- Ikea boy fights back: Fight club, consumerism, and the political limits of nineties cinema / Henry A. Giroux & Imre Szeman -- The Blair witch project, Macbeth, and the indeterminate end / Eric S. Mallin -- Empire of the gun: Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan and American chauvinism / Frank P. Tomasulo -- Saving Private Ryan too late / Krin Gabbard -- The confusions of Warren Beatty / Dana Polan -- Movie star presidents / Thomas Doherty -- The fantasy image: fixed and moving / Maureen Turim -- Men with guns: the story John Sayles can't tell / Ralph E. Rodriguez -- The end of Chicano cinema / Chon A. Noriega -- Being Keanu / R.L. Rutsky -- Woody Allen, "the artist", and "the little girl" / David R. Shumway -- Affliction: when paranoid male narratives fail / Marita Sturken -- The phallus unfetished: the end of masculinity as we know it in late 1990s "feminist" cinema / Alexandra Juhasz -- Bods and monsters: the return of the Bride of Frankenstein / Elizabeth Young -- Having their cake and eating it too: fat acceptance films and the production of meaning / Jerry Mosher -- A rant / James Schamus -- The case of Harmony Korine / Robert Sklar -- Where Hollywood fears to tread: autobiography and the limits of commercial cinema / Kathleen McHugh -- Smoke 'til you're blue in the face / Murray Smith -- Pamela Anderson on the slippery slope / Chuck Kleinhans -- King Rodney: the Rodney King video and textual analysis / Hamid Naficy -- Live video / Laura U. Marks -- End of story: the collapse of myth in postmodern narrative film / Christopher Sharrett -- Waiting for the end of the world: Christian apocalyptic media at the turn of the millennium / Heather Hendershot -- The four last things: history, technology, Hollywood, apocalypse / Paul Arthur -- Twenty-five reasons why it's all over / Wheeler Winston Dixon

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